Text: The United States federal government should offset $34 million dollars a year from abstinence allocated funds to programs in Sub Saharan Africa that provide abortion services.
Its competitive—Any permutation severs out of the resolutional increase in public health assistance. Severance is a voting issue for fairness because it makes the Affirmative an unpredictable moving target.
And, over 1 Billion is currently earmarked for counter-effective abstinence only programs.
Bruce Wilson, writer for Talk to Action, 4-30-7
(Tobias & Bush, Torturing Africa With Abstinence, http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51263/)
Crushing news out of Uganda last week. The Bush administration's$1 billion experiment in using abstinence messages as the basis of HIV prevention has born its first fruit: In a public speech on May 18, Uganda's AIDS Commissioner Kihumuro Apuuli announced that HIV infections have almost doubled in Uganda over the past two years, from 70,000 in 2003 to 130,000 in 2005. And despite this chilling wake-up call, Bush has empowered Christian right activists to continue to push their abstinence-only agenda at a UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS, to begin next week. According to a State Department email I obtained, the official U. S. delegation is stacked with some of the very people who contributed to the debacle in Uganda. Uganda was once an HIV prevention success story, where an ambitious government-sponsored prevention campaign, including massive condom distribution and messages about delaying sex and reducing numbers of partners, pushed HIV rates down from 15 percent in the early 1990s to 5 percent in 2001. [ from A disaster for abstinence ideology While increasingly sharper scientific challenges to the alleged efficacy of "Abstinence-only" programs in the US have come out over the last several years, culminating in a recent, devastating Mathematica Research study that finds Abstinence programs don't have much, if any, effect at persuading American teens not to have sex, the Bush Administration has turned a blind eye to the failure of abstinence ideology in the US and forged ahead determined to inflict failed abstinence programs on Africa and the developing world. As a recent New York Times Review of Books story noted, Human Rights Watch has come out and accused the Bush Administration of violating basic human rights : Most of the $15 billion in the AIDS plan is to be spent on treatment and care for people with AIDS, but $1 billion is earmarked for HIV prevention through abstinence-only-until-marriage education. Since 1996, the US government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on similar programs in American schools. These programs teach children that heterosexual intercourse within marriage is the only safe and acceptable form of sexual behavior. Teachers in those programs are barred from mentioning condoms and birth control—except their failure rates. Human Rights Watch and other activists point out that every abstinence-only program that has ever been evaluated has failed to reduce rates of teen pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases, and they fear that the $1 billion abstinence earmark will have similarly dismal results in other countries. Human Rights Watch has now accused the US government of violating the right of young people to information about sexuality, condoms, and other methods of contraception that could save their lives.
Its competitive—Any permutation severs out of the resolutional increase in public health assistance. Severance is a voting issue for fairness because it makes the Affirmative an unpredictable moving target.
And, over 1 Billion is currently earmarked for counter-effective abstinence only programs.
Bruce Wilson, writer for Talk to Action, 4-30-7
(Tobias & Bush, Torturing Africa With Abstinence, http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51263/)
Crushing news out of Uganda last week. The Bush administration's $1 billion experiment in using abstinence messages as the basis of HIV prevention has born its first fruit: In a public speech on May 18, Uganda's AIDS Commissioner Kihumuro Apuuli announced that HIV infections have almost doubled in Uganda over the past two years, from 70,000 in 2003 to 130,000 in 2005. And despite this chilling wake-up call, Bush has empowered Christian right activists to continue to push their abstinence-only agenda at a UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS, to begin next week. According to a State Department email I obtained, the official U. S. delegation is stacked with some of the very people who contributed to the debacle in Uganda. Uganda was once an HIV prevention success story, where an ambitious government-sponsored prevention campaign, including massive condom distribution and messages about delaying sex and reducing numbers of partners, pushed HIV rates down from 15 percent in the early 1990s to 5 percent in 2001. [ from A disaster for abstinence ideology While increasingly sharper scientific challenges to the alleged efficacy of "Abstinence-only" programs in the US have come out over the last several years, culminating in a recent, devastating Mathematica Research study that finds Abstinence programs don't have much, if any, effect at persuading American teens not to have sex, the Bush Administration has turned a blind eye to the failure of abstinence ideology in the US and forged ahead determined to inflict failed abstinence programs on Africa and the developing world. As a recent New York Times Review of Books story noted, Human Rights Watch has come out and accused the Bush Administration of violating basic human rights : Most of the $15 billion in the AIDS plan is to be spent on treatment and care for people with AIDS, but $1 billion is earmarked for HIV prevention through abstinence-only-until-marriage education. Since 1996, the US government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on similar programs in American schools. These programs teach children that heterosexual intercourse within marriage is the only safe and acceptable form of sexual behavior. Teachers in those programs are barred from mentioning condoms and birth control—except their failure rates. Human Rights Watch and other activists point out that every abstinence-only program that has ever been evaluated has failed to reduce rates of teen pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases, and they fear that the $1 billion abstinence earmark will have similarly dismal results in other countries. Human Rights Watch has now accused the US government of violating the right of young people to information about sexuality, condoms, and other methods of contraception that could save their lives.